LSEG rolls out cloud screening solution for instant payments

By Vriti Gothi

LSEG Risk Intelligence has launched World-Check Verify, a next-generation cloud-native screening API powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). The solution embeds real-time compliance directly into payment and onboarding workflows, ensuring seamless, secure checks without compromising transaction speed or customer experience.

As financial services accelerate towards instant payments and embedded finance, compliance requirements are intensifying under frameworks such as the EU Instant Payments regulation. World-Check Verify addresses this market inflexion point by delivering lightweight, stateless screening at enterprise scale. With unmatched speed, resilience, and privacy safeguards, the solution enables financial institutions and FinTech platforms to balance regulatory obligations with frictionless digital experiences.

David Wilson, Group Head of LSEG Risk Intelligence, commented, “World-Check Verify makes compliance invisible with timely, trusted data ensuring screening happens in the background, at the precise moment it’s needed, so payments and onboarding remain instant and seamless. It sets a new standard for embedded compliance in a world where speed, trust, and accuracy must coexist.”

World-Check Verify leverages LSEG’s trusted World-Check data and AWS’s secure, scalable cloud infrastructure to deliver real-time screening that integrates directly into customer journeys. The solution is designed for high-performance digital environments such as neobanks, cross-border platforms, and large-scale enterprise systems. Its architecture provides embedded, low-latency screening within payments and onboarding, highly available cloud-native infrastructure optimised for digital-first platforms, data sovereignty safeguards, and enterprise-grade security. Flexible integration and advanced configuration enable alignment with institutional compliance policies, while its resilience ensures performance in global, high-volume transaction environments.

Alison Kay, Vice President and Managing Director of AWS UKI, said, “The World-Check Verify solution is created from the combination of AWS’s secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and LSEG’s World-Check intelligence. This cloud-native solution scales instantly to meet demand spikes, reduces infrastructure overhead, and leverages advanced analytics to transform the manual workload burden that 77% of institutions struggle with into an automated, efficient workflow. It exemplifies how AWS’s cloud capabilities can help solve complex industry challenges so that financial institutions can innovate and scale their risk management operations with confidence, while maintaining the highest security standards.”